8 fighters Floyd Mayweather should have fought in their prime

[MurkaMan]

Skill is tested based on quality of opposition. Look man, I didn't make the criteria. Quality of opponents is how everyone is judged from up and comers all the way to ATG listing and status.

So name a fighter in history that can fight FLOYD'S OPPONENTS, and NOT beat them or murder them, but change their whole fighting style and dominate each without getting hissed by a single shot.

Everything you type is basically you trying to talk AROUND the elephant in the room that is his skillset. All the talk of him having low quality opposition is folklore itself. Everyone is too old or young. They were all bigger, stronger 15lbs heavier, 10 yrs younger, 15 yrs younger. He in his late 30's making them look like clowns in the ring. No fighter is better than Floyd.

[L3TH4L]

Canelo and Mosley should be on that list.

[DLT]

Juan Manuel Marquez spent the majority of his career at 126. After a brief stint at 130, he went to 135, for two whole fights!! Not one fight at lightweight, but a grand total of two!! Floyd, by the time he had fought Marquez, had been at welterweight for a number of years and fights. He also fought as high as 154. lol @ Floyd being the bigger name than Winky. They were equals at that time. I guess its ok to you for Floyd to fight a guy from basically three divisions lower, than it is for him to move up a couple.

Typical Floyd stan. Whats good for everyone else, isn't good for floyd.

thats not the same thing at all. You say JMM started at 126? Well Floyd started at 130. Where did Winky start? He's been at 154 his whole career. You said JMM had brief stints? How long did Floyd fight at 135 & 140? Floyd had been a WW for a number of years when he fought JMM and had fought at 154 but he only went to 154 for a big money super fight with Oscar. At that time Floyd was at WW, he was coming into the ring at 146-148 pounds. Even against Chino he was 148 now.

I remember him fighting Zab at WW and coming in at 146 pounds while at the same exact time Pac was at 130 and coming into the ring at 145 pounds so dont act like Floyd was some huge natural monster like Winky was. Floyd's name was not equal to Winky's. You think a Winky-Gatti fight is going to be on PPV? Hell No.

[MurkaMan]

Skill is tested based on quality of opposition. Look man, I didn't make the criteria. Quality of opponents is how everyone is judged from up and comers all the way to ATG listing and status.

And btw, the "criteria" was created for Floyd. As I said before, the word "best" was overphilosophied specifically for FLOYD. To find ways to take the title from him and not give him credit for being the best fighter in history skillwise.

No one wants to admit he is the most complete fighter boxing will ever see. But SRR has 120something fights that dont mean he is the best fighter. He's not, he made plenty of mistakes. "How can you be the best if you dont do this or do that"

All of that was created, as well as folklore, to talk down on Floyd.

Im not going out of my way to hate on this man he can freaking fight and Im thoroughly impressed. If you wanna say he ducked Pacman, that is a fact. I agree with it.

But Im not doing the folklore an acting like he fights bums, ducks 20 fighters, is overrate etc.

[DARKSEID]

9. Sergio Martinez Who was willing to go all the way down to 150

10. Erislandy Lara

[IronDanHamza]

Mayweather pulled out of the Wright fight late and fougt Mitchell instead?

Did you just pull that out of thin air? That's completely untrue.

Wright turned down the fight and walked away from a career high pay day.

[Showtime..]

Winky would have destroyed Floyd no doubt. Margarito & Williams would also give Floyd a loss. Kostya was too old, Cotto would lose to Floyd back then like he did recently.

Why don't we make a thread where Pacquiao doesn't fight JMM & Bradley 6 combined times? Just their 2004 & 2012 bouts. Who would Pacquiao had fought instead?

[DARKSEID]

Winky would have destroyed Floyd no doubt. Margarito & Williams would also give Floyd a loss. Kostya was too old, Cotto would lose to Floyd back then like he did recently.

Why don't we make a thread where Pacquiao doesn't fight JMM & Bradley 6 combined times? Just their 2004 & 2012 bouts. Who would Pacquiao had fought instead?

Who hasn't Pacquiao fought? He's fought everybody with a name.

[daggum]

Mayweather pulled out of the Wright fight late and fougt Mitchell instead?

Did you just pull that out of thin air? That's completely untrue.

Wright turned down the fight and walked away from a career high pay day.

actually they had agreed on money and winky even agreed to all of floyd's crazy demands including a re-hydration clause but then floyd demanded more money and the fight died. sound familiar.......

[IronDanHamza]

actually they had agreed on money and winky even agreed to all of floyd's crazy demands including a re-hydration clause but then floyd demanded more money and the fight died. sound familiar.......

Right which still would have been a career high pay day for Winky and he turned it down.

Now THAT is what sounds familiar.